Today, I share my conversation with Dr. Eric Sienknecht, an identical twin, psychologist, and co-founder of the Polaris Insight Center, a Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy clinic in San Francisco.

Topics Discussed:

• Developing an individual identity while being an identical twin
• Healing through experiencing non-ordinary states of consciousness
• Psychedelic therapy, including Ketamine-assisted therapy
• Growing up in Tennessee and attending an all-boys Christian high school
• Experiences with bullying by peers and teachers
• Mystical experiences
• Detaching from your emotions
• Holding space and self-care through mindfulness and listening to music

Links:

• Polaris Insight Center
• Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
• Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research
• Dr. Ralph Hood Jr., a psychologist who studied non-ordinary states of consciousness and developed the scale to measure mystical experiences
• Pahnke's "Good Friday" experiment wiki and thesis
• California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
• Grof Legacy Project
• Philip Wolfson and Julane Andries Ketamine Training Center
• Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception
• Eli Kolp and Evgeny Krupitsky's study regarding treating addiction with Ketamine-assisted therapy
• Ketamine Papers by Phil Wolfs and Glen Hartelius
• The Microdose newsletter from the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics

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As always, thank you to Maytav Koter and Spencer Stewart for the music on my podcast, to Laura Strohbusch for the podcast graphic, and to my new editor Mikayla at Cry Baby Audio!